How about
a look at Psalm 139 ? Ah, join with me in this spiritual globe trot; for the
sights are superb indeed. Further they refresh the soul, invite the heart, stir
the faith and call to action.

It is -

wonderful as a sunset is,

marvellous like a waterfall,

splendid like the ardent dawning
of a day which can hardly wait to arrive,

smooth as the quiet waters which
ripple dextrously through the reeds,

inspiring like the massive granite
of rocky outcrops amongst the mantle of the forests,

textured like tartan,

sprouting with beauty like the
Spring.

How I could ever have failed
to realise that it concerned embryonic substance in one of its major pockets of
beauty, is now a subject of amazement! It reaches one patience with those who
still do not see this or that. It is, I fear, only some 42 years since I caught
this, and I am no youth!

Let us then patiently look
within this soaring Matterhorn of inspiration, and see the view from parts of its cavities, holes in
the rock.

David is astonished at the total, searching, dynamic,
never uncontemporary, always up-to-the-minute knowledge which the Lord has of
his body, feelings, thoughts and situation.It is no leisurely
computer-style programmatic, non-emphatic, listless survey. It involves
SEARCHING. You see much the same in verses 22-23: "Search me and try me and see if
there be any wicked way in me." HERE, at the beginning of the meditation, David is musing
with wonder at the depth and breadth, the scope of the knowledge of God, in
this intimate personal sense, which nevertheless is also an objective and
all-covering, pan-dimensional thing. At the end, he is emphatically WANTING
this same searching, he is CO-OPERATING zealously, with feeling and delight in
the process.

At the first, the man who
always seems to retain something of the shepherd boy in his heart, is feeling
almost overwhelmed with the magnitude of being in the hand and mind and heart
of God, his Father. It is inescapable. Thus we find him with words like these: " You compass my
path, " "There is not a word in my tongue, but behold, O Lord, you
know it altogether!"

This knowledge, this KIND
of knowledge, the knowledge which is in the heart of God, is altogether too
magnificent for David. He acknowledges that it is there; like a stupendous
waterfall - Niagara for example - it is splashing down with tons beyond
thought, not the rivulets of rain, not the slow moving rivers of quietude, but
the appallingly wonderful torrents of surpassing power. It is not a kind of
knowledge to which David has access. It is the primal reality of the power of
the Creator which has such thoughts as these.

Then comes the sense of
being comprehensively, without residue, COVERED, KNOWN, OPEN to God! He begins
suddenly to have a sensation of being shut-in!

"Whither
shall I go from your Spirit ?" Then the feeling mounts, as if a leopard or lion were
lurking: "Or
whither shall I flee from Your presence ?"

Yet for all
that, it is not a terror but a sense of overpowering presence with a magnitude
of mind, a depth of spirit which is limitless, unfathomable, magnificent. TO
HEAVEN, then, will David go to find rest from such total comprehension of all
that he is ? Not at all, that is the very seat of God. To hell, but this is an
outlying area to which there is possible no SIGN as if to say: ACCESS DENIED TO
GOD! There is nothing which can limit the Eternal Lord and Prince of all Power.

Geography, can that help ?
Taking the wings of the morning, the tendrils of light shining out from the
rising sun in its unfettered grandeur, seizing the earth with its light, can
David elope from visibility ? Not at all, for there still is God, the same compassionate,
shepherding God, who just as David with the stray lamb, knows, hears and acts.
Indeed, the perhaps fleeting feeling of being a shut-in develops into a
glorying in being never one shut out: never abandoned, never alone, never a
lifeless remnant, as it were, a spiritual corpse in the wilderness, a lost
child, unadopted, unadapted, lying free among the dead. Vitality and
spirituality mix. They have one Father; and David is glad it is God.

But perhaps some sleek
thought of burrowing away, self for self, arises: but no! "Surely the
darkness shall cover me ?" But no! Or is it merely a thought that perhaps there IS some
place unenlightened by the presence of God. Rather the musing seems fluid,
liquid, constantly aligning with love and delight, sometimes awe-stricken, and
rather like a curious child, he seems to examine possibilities, only to reject
them, possibilities open to this or that spirit, but here perhaps
overwhelmingly, those of pure investigation, with results such as they would
be. Darkness might be sought by the criminal, or by the "I want to be
alone" mood of the wounded, or it might be tested by the soldier who
considers simply the communication line with his commander. Whatever the
ground, the government is the same. Darkness will NOT hide from God.

The prevailing wind of love
continues to blow strongly. "The night shall be light about me." This gives the slant: it is the
DESIRABLE GOVERNANCE OF GOD which in the end is the refreshing, yes, and
relaxing reality.

The sheer extent of this divine
involvement, supervisory knowledge, governing presence, as a friend, goes far
back. It goes to the very constitution not only of the universe, which
consequently He so owns and controls, that no particle is beyond His
apprehension, comprehension, survey and oversight. It goes to the constitution
of David himself. "By Him, were all things were created", and "without Him was nothing made that
was made"
(Colossians 1, John 1).

It is the Lord who became
flesh - John 1:14. THERE IS NEVER ANY QUESTION OF THERE BEING MORE THAN
ONE GOD (Deuteronomy 32:15-21, Isaiah 43:10, 45:22ff., Galatians 3:19-22,
Ephesians 4:4-6, see SMR Ch.7, Section 4), SO
THAT IN BECOMING FLESH, HE MANIFESTED THE ALMIGHTY DIRECT AND WITHOUT SUBORDINATE
INTERMEDIARY, BEING HE). It is He, who is known here, the
same yesterday, today, forever (Hebrews 13:8), that LORD to whom every knee
shall bow (Isaiah 45:22ff., Philippians 2:1-13), who has sworn BY
HIMSELF, there being "NONE ELSE". who has no equal, who shall have it for Himself without
addition, who shall have it AS JESUS CHRIST, to whom alone His unique honour
can go, since it is His own, the honour OF the Eternal FOR the Eternal.

Besides HIM, Himself, "there is NO
SAVIOUR", as it is
written in Isaiah and Acts (4:11-12); and thus to Him alone it is due, and to
Christ it comes, that shining splendour, the brightness of His glory, who
though in the form of God, equality with God His very nature, yet voluntarily
took the form of man (Philippians 2). And here, not only is He the Saviour,
there is NO OTHER NAME! (Acts 4:11-12). Father and Son, and the Spirit of
Truth, one God, have worked all.

It is He whom we have now
seen in the flesh, as the Lord Jesus Christ, the same, the only God, expressed
in this vulnerable and yet wholly planned way. It is for us as for him. We
indeed have the glory that surpasses, in this, that we have beheld Him with the
grace and glory as of the only-begotten, the light which shines from the light,
the word which expresses the heart of God, infinite with the infinite, but put
down to man. WE have seen this breath-taking marvel of humiliation, and sensed
the astounding grandeur of His glory, both, also, through His word and Spirit,
through which He can manifest Himself.

There is part of the glory
of it. The Old Testament and the New Testament are of ONE GOD. He is the Lord.
He has ever and always been there, available through His covenant, merciful and
mighty, delightful and delicious, awesome and unyielding to all sin, as
pleasant and beautiful as a brother, but pure without alloy, powerful without
defect. He was the same then, and His heart loved the shepherd who in turn
loved the shepherding of the Almighty God. He who so loved, has loved not in
vain, and has come and shown in His Person, the love which was always there,
and in which David had this holy share (cf. Psalm 17:15).

Psalm 139, then, is here
musing on these things, the comprehensive magnificence, knowledge, power,
creation, creativeness, control, governance, goodness of God, the God who is
available, actual and acting. We are looking at verse13, which is the beginning
of a new sequence.

ALL THINGS WERE CREATED BY
HIM. David is part of this "all things", both created and made, both
brought into any type of existence at all, and formed in the exact format,
form, with the precise formulae of the divine designation. Yet for all that, it
is a being of spirit who can ponder, who can relate, who can think about these
things, who can commune, whose is the light, with whom is the hand of the
Governor, the protective, empowering, enabling, caring hand of God: it is this
which David now has and uses. It is for all the world like a child beginning to
assess the presence of parents; but different in this, that there is both
worship - an adoring, worshipping spirit, and comprehension, there is both
understanding and delight in this divinely limitless, yet intensively personal
God.

"For You
have possessed my inward parts; You have covered me in my mother's womb. I will
praise You." There
is this COVERING. It is physical, in the womb membrane, its fluid buffer; it is
mental in the constant surveillance; it is spiritual in the preparatory
preliminaries, the movements governing the liberties to come, when David is to
be born, to grow and to become a child of none less than the Lord Himself.

The programmatic, the lively, the development of
ingenious contrivances which yield successively to islands of strength,
aptitude, all coming, all created, are such a splendour of wonder, such an
ocean of divine prodigality, like a universe condensed, a book on a disk,
that David is instructed. He knows "full well" that this is an
invention that is God's own: Himself in embryo. The very DAYS for the
various developments are all SETTLED:

"My structure was not hidden
from You,

when I was made in secret,

and intricately given diversity of
form

in the developmental darkness.

Your eyes saw my embryonic substance

and in your book all (the particular
results of developmental processes, to form the physical equipment of
life, organic, structural)

were written,

the (very) days they
should be fashioned,

when as yet none (organic,
structural members) of them (so much as) existed."*1

(See The
Kingdom of Heaven Ch.9, pp. 167ff.
for the linguistic and textual details.)

Intricate was
the arrangement of properties, precise the programmatic proportions set, and
the timing for each phase of the movement from scarcely recognisable, unformed
blob (as it might appear to the eye not trained and not microscopically aided)
to the delicately organised and integrally purposed being, creation. Step by
step it comes, integral in each phase, able to function at the earliest level,
though it seems so very diverse from the end product; it does not breathe, but
develops lungs; then at birth, it does breath, and uses them perforce, AT ONCE!
Preparation is immense, as for a vast and foreseen voyage, as in the discovery
of America through the unyielding seas. The result is navigation, and in this
case, the arrangements for navigation are precise, purposeful at every point.
The VERY DAYS, the TIME for each phase, is set down, it is in its own context
sure and sufficient. It is purposed, it is performed. It is written, and it
comes. So the shepherd muses on the work of His king in MAKING him!

"Thine
eyes did see my substance, yet being unformed" (v.16). GOD KNEW it in each stage,
was not only aware of it, but caused it to come into being, as something "intricately
wrought". Even
when there was nothing in the way of an arm or a leg or an organ, yet in the
mind of God, it was seen as it was, as it was to be, and in the interstices,
what had to go in between. "In your book, all were written." Now of
course we see that this is literally true. There is a form of communication of
the utmost precision, and intricate indeed is the method by which the orders
and and commands are relayed from the information storehouse, inscribed in the
DNA, with messenger RNA and various elaborate devices to check and to control.
Here is the master's mind which makes the structures which enable the working
in this world, of the minds of his creations-called-man.

Just as, when there was "none of
them", God saw
David's members as embryonic, and to-be-made, all together with an overall
comprehensive wisdom of engineering and creation, so of course, and much more,
does He see the NOW COMPLETED DAVID in his adult phase, mind and spirit now
installed and active, equipment mature. If in this infancy, yes, proto-infancy,
God could see and do so well, how much more now that the man is alive to God
and able to muse before Him through the equipment thus provided for his spirit,
is God able to provide, to superintend and to deliver!

"HOW
PRECIOUS ALSO ARE YOUR THOUGHT TO ME, O GOD! HOW GREAT IS THE NUMBER OF THEM!
IF I SHOULD COUNT THEM, THEY ARE MORE IN NUMBER THAN THE SAND. WHEN I AWAKE I
AM STILL WITH YOU!"

The practical
particulars of one's life, be they to the aghast soul, the temporarily
dispirited saint, a very astral panorama of difficulty, yet this is as nothing.
God made the atoms and the cells, the DNA and the contrivances, the means to
put into being itself, then into full operation that trilogy of spirit, mind
and matter which is man. How much more CAN HE guide and control, direct and
protect, undertake and resolve, solve dark and deep issues, undo mysteries and
leave them looking simple, be they theoretical, doctrinal, personal,
professional, financial! They are more in number than the sand. HE KNOWS what
He has made, and with wisdom and power He has made it, who then relates with
that same prodigious availability and energy, understanding and might which He
showed in the creation of the thing in the first place. The 'thing' ? No, the
personal entity, which amazingly is enshrined in flesh, though spiritual in
kind.

Now we
come to the question of morals very directly, in the special sense of what
happens when they are breached, when the Designer is scorned, the Maker is a point
of departure, discipline is replaced with deflection. What happens to the
wicked, then ?

In the end - and there
is an end - they will be slain. You see in Psalm 83:13-17 you see the two
phases. First, "So persecute them ... Fill their faces with shame, that
they may seek Your name, O Lord!" IF that fails, then "Let them be
confounded ; and troubled for ever; yes, let them be put to shame, and perish,
that men may know that You whose name alone is the Lord, are the most high over
all the earth."

The sheer outrageous
impudence, impertinence, folly, vagrancy and moody unreasonableness of BEING
WICKED is brought out in this creation psalm. Dealing with the sovereign
majesty of God, and His creative prowess, where delicacy and intricacy work
with the very modest weakness of man being formed, as he is formed from the
womb to this day, yet in TERMS of the PROGRAMMATIC PROCEDURES, unchanged
since creation itself! Indeed, "When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your
fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained, What is man, that You
are mindful of him ? and the son of man, that You visit him ?" (Psalm
8:3-4).

But here in Psalm 139, it
is the universe of man-the-created, itself a vast panorama of wonderful rocks
and cascades, stars of operation and sunshine of energy: it is man, as created,
and still formed on that self-same model of creation, made operational over
hundreds of generations, that is the topic, the focus of wonder, the incitement
to marvel. "Do
I not hate them that hate You!" (Psalm 139:21). Hate! Hate... That is what is
written. But how would one hate what the Lord has made ? It is "with a perfect
hatred". It is not
a personal grudge, vendetta or vilification. It is a detestation of what
disjoins from the source of goodness because, by definition, that IS hateful.
It is NOT a vain desire for their destruction beyond compassion; it is a desire
that if they must depart, then they will do so, for then "shall the
righteous shine forth like the sun" (Matthew 13:43). Where ? where ?
"in
the kingdom of their Father".

What of the weeds, the
dissidents who would not acknowledge the facts, and who would not love the
Lord, but would play games with Him or crucify Him or insist on being equal
with Him, contrary to unalterable fact (we did not exist when He did - this is
a fact) ? They - "the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so shall it
be in the end of this age." What of this kingdom ? Then, not by human Kosovo horrors,
but by divine knowledge, where truth is a criterion indispensable, "they shall
gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who do
iniquity." You simply CANNOT have things which contradict truth, make
stumbling blocks for those who follow it, lie and deceive, themselves not
least, in the light for ever. The light would be their ruin. They are governed
by darkness, and the light perishes them. It is because of His divine
compassion that the Lord waits so long :

"The Lord is not slack
concerning His promise, as some men count slackness, but is longsuffering
toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to
repentance ... But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night
.... Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of
persons ought you to be in all holy living and godliness ... Grow in
grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. To Him
be glory both now and forever" (from II Peter 3:9-11,18).

Thus in
Psalm 139:20, David, having noted the "perfect hatred", the hatred of the evil with which
they are consolidated, not any vindictive or purely or merely personal hatred,
hating the virus not the patient, not confusing disease and disaster area,
continues to give reason for this essence of detestation. It is because they
hate God that David has this alienation from them; alienated from God, they are
ipso facto contrary to him also. He is thus "grieved with
those who rise up against You" (Psalm 139:21). They "speak wickedly". He will "count them my
enemies". So far
from presuming into the area of hatred with any personal flesh, any carnal
appetite, any vindictive flavour, David is motivated by concern at the invasion
of goodness, alienation of truth, rebellion from righteousness; and wholly in
terms of this spiritual parricide, this attack and assault on God, is he
concerned.

At that, he is not looking
at race or face, but at spiritual state. He finds the pathological positions
hateful, and would that they might leave them. "Let not a wicked speaker be
established in the earth" - he continues in Psalm 140:11. Amen and amen.

Firstly, they mislead, if it were possible the
elect.

Secondly, it is spurious, often the product of
furious spirits, alien to truth, involved in deception, first of all
frequently, of themselves.

Thirdly, it is a libel on the love of God.

Fourthly, it can snare and utterly ruin many,
who following this spiritual Pied Piper, go into the hill, the horror of
misplacement, misguided, hurt, hindered, and ruined, spoiled like dropped
peaches.

Who would
not HATE such things; although the agents of it are people themselves, whom one
would see likewise delivered from this hateful thing: it is the thing which is
hateful, and this IN THEM which is hated, which constitutes the enablement to
seek that the discipline to come might lead them to "Seek Your
face" as
we saw. It is only to the inveterate that THAT does not seem a delight, a
deliverance and a relief.

After all, the Lord has not
dealt with us after our sins, and "As a father pities his children, so the
Lord pities those who fear Him ... the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to
everlasting on those who fear Him" - and if they do not enter that door, that simple door,
that open door by faith (Psalm 118:20-24), then it is to their own destruction,

inter-meddling with what does not
concern them,

falling into that for which they
were not created,

voluntarily absorbing what is
vicious, and

opting for what is the very soul
and essence of destruction, albeit endless, for such shame in spirit is
not like an ink blot, it stains to the very universe.

We are not
dealing with games. It is a creation by the Creator, and in love He has
provided all. Remember David's dealing with Absolam, how he yearned for his
son's return, how he sought for him even when he personally was dishonoured and
evicted from Jerusalem by a military rebellion led by that same treacherous
son. And this, it was a son forgiven much; one who traded on David's mercy to
seek to enact his own father's downfall. THAT was the son whom he did not
want hurt. He sought to protect son Absolam, even in the battle which could
displace himself as king. This is a perfect hatred, a hatred of the evil which
yet would delight in the eviction of the same, so that the soul might, being
forgiven, be well.

Now of course there is the
next question: WHAT ABOUT ME ? AM I GOOD ? Of course it is God who is good, and
derivative goodness is achieved not merely by loyalty of heart, sympathy of
attitude, even love of spirit: it involves realism. We are all sinners, so all
need WASHING (cf. Psalm 51!). We need the achievement of the sacrifice
acceptable to God, to cover our sins (Leviticus 4, 16, Hebrews 9, Psalm 51, I
John 1-2). In turn we need TO BE SEARCHED BY GOD IN CASE THERE IS ANYTHING
RESIDUAL STILL OPERATING CARNALLY IN US! There is situation cleansing and there
is dynamic cleansing.

We are cleansed as
Christians to begin, and kept in cleanness by the constant governing
housekeeping of God. Make no mistake: God is not mocked. The problems of those
who yield to the follies of fantasy in the alleged presence of faith are
profound. While God does not break the bruised flax, He does not heal it by
having it ravaged by a perpetual hurricane, let alone one constantly beckoned
by weather-changing devices. Faith is not merely a name, but a dynamic reality
(James 2:17). The body of the babe is not bogus, but real, and the life of the
saint, the child of God, is not a mere pious fiction, a poetic fantasy, but a
child's rearing and safekeeping in the household of faith. The Father is
present in the process (cf. John 14:21-23, Colossians 1:27, John 15:26).

We must be "clean who bear the
vessels of the Lord";
we must be
"perfecting holiness in the fear of the Lord" ( II Cor. 7:1). He who is born of God
does not "make a practice of sin" (I John 3:9 'does not practise sin'). Sinlessly perfect WE ARE NOT (I
John 1:8-9); but freed from sin's rule we must be (John 8:34-36). Its
sovereignty over us must be nil. It is one thing to be a rather poor driver; it
is another to obey some voice telling us to find the bottom of the ditch with
our front wheels, or to climb a lamp post with our bumper bar as pivot, or
slide.

Thus,

"Search
me and try me and see if there be any wicked way in me" (Psalm 139:23).

GOD MADE with all
KNOWLEDGE, as we saw earlier in the Psalm; He crafted with all understanding;
He protects, guides, corrects with all zest and zeal, we found; so now that same INABILITY to ESCAPE the
knowledge of God with which the Psalm started, becomes applied in a special
field.

It goes like this. It is as
if to say to Him:

YOU HAVE ALL KNOWLEDGE SO
USE IT. YOU WHO CONSTRUCTED ME SO COMPREHENSIVELY AND DISCERNS ALL SO
PERFECTLY. Check me out. Give me the test. DO NOT let anything pass muster on
false pretences. I do not trust even myself; but my intention is pure.
Therefore kindly give to me the tests which are apt, adequate and appropriate;
and if you DO FIND anything lurking there, rid me of it. So it is for you and
for me, peace. Thus,

"Lead me,
in the way everlasting," (Psalm 139:24),

which does not finish,
which is past all these admittedly wonderful but preliminary formulations and
formations, these womb wonders and these working marvels. Lead me where
eternity is, where You are, and where I shall be. Is this not to remind
us:

"Beloved,
what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called the
children of God; therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know
Him.

"Beloved,
now are we the children of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be,
but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him for we shall see
Him as He is. And every man who has this hope in him, purifies himself, even as
He is pure." So I
John 3 echoes Psalm 139, and translates the same marvel in the light of our
indescribable blessedness, that the Messiah is not merely to come; He HAS COME
and has DONE IT!

As Hebrews
puts it:

"God who
at sundry times and in diverse manners spoke in times past to the fathers by
the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has
appointed heir of all things, by whom also He made the worlds, who, being the
brightness of His glory , and the express image of His person, and upholding
all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins,
sat down on the right hand of Majesty on high..." (1:1-3).

What a psalm, what balm,
what beauty, what truth! And how wonderful the Lord is!

NOTE

*1

In Psalm 139:16,
we saw in our translation on p. 129, reference to a "book’:

"My embryonic substance was
not hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and intricately given
diversity of form in the developmental darkness. Your eyes saw my
embryonic substance and in your book all (the particular results of developmental
processes, to form the physical equipment of life, organic, structural) were written, the
(very) days they should
be fashioned, when as yet none (organic, structural members) of them (so much as) existed."

This ‘book’ is inscribed, we saw, with the
patterns and plans, the provisions for creation of the embryo through
stages, each appointed its timing with ‘days’ for the case, so that its
arms, legs and organs could be secured. Each phase had to be
self-sufficient in the sense it was capable of being, of existing, of
operating: for example, the pre-breathing phase had to be equipped with
alternative oxygen supply, as of course is the case in the attachment to
the blood-supply of the mother, before birth.

The Biblical characterisation of embryonic
development, therefore, involves patterns, programs, timing and phases,
knowledge of what is to be, and a rigorous conducting of phase to phase,
until the creation be past, the child is actually born (ending stage 1,
embryonic development), so that stage 2, post-natal development can ensue.

So intense and specific is the envisagement for
this work in the womb, that a "BOOK" is stated to be present in
the mind of the Creator: so surely is it all worked out, and so organised
is the information required. It is "Thy book" where it is written.

That this is an extraordinary prevision of what
is now known, in our limping and partial human way as science explores and
verifies, as it finds and refines its knowledge over time, is obvious. It
is neither a case of chance, nor mystery, nor magic that the child is so
magnificently formed, so wondrously developed, point by point, plan of
operation by plan of operation, synthetic in overall integration of
phases, each operable in its time. There is nothing haphazard about it, as
shown in the prophetic writings of David (who of course WAS a prophet, and
prophets not only FORETELL the future but PROCLAIM the facts, as God sees
fit to declare them for His great purposes with the children of men -
ourselves). This embryonic development is structured and ordered with and
BY knowledge, set forth in a composed, inspectable format which is called
‘Your book’. There they are all ‘written’.

The Bible being the word of God, what it says
constitutes fact. It is more than fact, because God does not merely
observe and induce and consider and test and verify and confirm or adjust,
as in scientific method; HE KNOWS. He knows more, but not less than we,
absurd as is the precocity of some scientific enfants terribles, who,
coming themselves from the womb, seem to forget the way in which the
Almighty has brought them forth by His knowledge, His programs and His
purposes, as they tilt with monstrous presumption, at Him. This is nothing
new; it is merely a developing way of doing it, for our time.

Hence when the
modern discoveries of DNA, so well set forth in Denton’s EVOLUTION: A THEORY IN
CRISIS, for example:What then
?

When we see

the masses of information storage,

then evidence of its magnificent
miniaturisation, of the commands associated with it and

the provisions for implementing those commands,
ALL BY SYMBOLIC DIRECTION in actual information which could be construed
and set forth in a book of pages, with

symbols of instruction, many saying some 1000
such books, of substantial dimensions, being the comparison one
could make, these being present in each human, living cell but in a
form of delicate condensation:

when this is seen, what then ?

This: there is indeed a book
of the Lord. Whether there is in any sense a prototype, and presumably there is
for each of these exemplars, some hurt in genetic damage in this way or that;
or whether the reference is to its equivalent in His mind, there is such an
assemblage of information, and it is present in each cell in a composure of
condensed, spread forth information often scientifically compared to a book, or
a very large book indeed! The Lord’s book, ‘Thy book’ as David calls it, in that sense, is
like a massive set of encyclopedias. In it, indeed, is written not only the
phases and forms, but the means and the end… The members, the organic
components are all ‘written’ together with the time phases, the days for their
exhibition and composition, ‘before as yet any of them existed.’

Since this is a work on Christian
Apologetics, it is necessary to emphasise that -

THIS IS
SIMPLY ONE MORE VERIFICATION OF THE DIVINE ORIGIN OF THE BIBLE, PROVEN
SEPARATELY, BUT CONSTANTLY PROVIDED FOR TESTING AND CONFIRMATION.

IN TERMS OF SCIENTIFIC METHOD, THIS IS ONE MORE
SPECTACULAR VERIFICATION.

For further on Psalm 139,
see Ch. 9, The Kingdom of Heaven, Bible Translation, at this point.